US Patent Issued to Agility Robotics on Nov. 11 for "Method and system for improving stability in a legged robot" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,502, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Agility Robotics Inc. (Salem, Ore.).

"Method and system for improving stability in a legged robot" was invented by Andrew Abate (Albany, Ore.) and Kevin Francis Sweeney (Albany, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot has a body and at least two legs extending from the robot body, each leg comprising a plurality of links that are rotatably connected. A ground contacting assembly is rotatably connected to the distal link of each leg. The ground contacting assembly is configured to provide an increase in roll range of motion and to facilitate abduction and adduction of the leg for traversing ...